The Center for Economic Information (CEI) is a research unit of the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri- Kansas City. CEI uses its expertise in GIS, economic statistics, and econometrics to conduct research for both the public and private sectors.

Mission: To use information technology in support of:

• economic decision-makers in the public and private sectors
• and academic researchers

Website: www.umkc.edu/cei

Director: Peter Eaton, Ph.D. / eatonp@umkc.edu
Assistant Director: Douglas H. Bowles, Ph.D. / bowlesdh@umkc.edu

***For additional maps and reports from the Center for Economic Information, simply search for CEI in the KCResearch database.

• National Institute of Health (NIH) Environmental Factors Obesity Study


• Kansas City Community Development Initiative Reports
• for Kansas City, MO
• for Kansas City, KS


• Ethnicity and Minority Population Maps for the Kansas City Metropolitan Area


• Kansas City, MO Housing Conditions Survey


• "Geographic Information Systems-Based Analysis of Metropolitan Development, Decline, and Recovery: Professor Douglas H. Bowles' Ph.D. Dissertation in Economics and Social Science, available in its entirety.